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  • SFFS Screen: "Eldorado"--Jul. 3-9

    This Belgian road movie tails two loners as they drive around South Belgium in a vintage Eldorado, leavening its pessimism with a deadpan sense of humor. More at more

Photo by Misha Maclaird.

Going Global

Global Film Initiative’s Santhosh Daniel (left) and Jeremy Quist (right) mingle with Kay Sato of the SF Jewish Film Festival at the GFI Happy Hour event at Custom Lounge Tuesday.

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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.

Sapphistry

Sapphic icons Sharon Gless and Rosie O’Donnell flew in to join Frameline’s Jennifer Morris and K.C. Price for the world premiere of Hannah Free on closing night of San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.

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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.

Inside the hive

Incumbent and incoming residents met last Thursday at an open house to launch the new term of SFFS FilmHouse, a beehive of filmmaking production and incubation. Pictured, from left: Phil Bonner, Dalan McNabola, Simron Gill, Eugene Corr, Valerie Soe, Dave Nelson, Marcia Jarmel, Ken Schneider, Carlton Evans and Serge Bakalian.

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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.

Playing to the crowd

Local directors Fawn Yacker and Dee Mosbacher showed Training Rules, their documentary about homophobia in collegiate women’s basketball, to a typically vocal Frameline audience, who hissed the coach with the loathsome No drugs, No drinking, No lesbians rules.

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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.

Kuchars, Kroot, Castro

Jennifer M. Kroot’s documentary It Came from Kuchar, a hilarious and touching tribute to her former teacher George Kuchar (right) and his twin Mike, screened following the presentation of the Frameline Award to the inspirational underground filmmakers Sunday Night at the Castro.

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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.

Frameline33 opens

Newly-minted Frameline executive director, K.C. Price (left) with festival director Jennifer Morris and Richard Laxton, director of An Englishman in New York, toasted before welcoming a full house to the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival opening night at the Castro Theatre.

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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.

Screen gems

Shelley Diekman and Judy Bloch, who have radiated their love and knowledge of film from their posts at the Pacific Film Archive for nearly 30 years, are retiring. Two of the best perks of retirement: time to watch movies and a personalized lifetime pass to the PFA presented by curator Steve Seid.

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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.

Thinking green

At SFFS Film Arts Forum’s "Think Like a Funder," Cynthia Kane and Erica Deiparine-Sugars of ITVS, Holly Million, author of Fear-Free Fundraising, Santhosh Daniel of Global Film Initiative and Ellen Schneider of Active Voice shared fundraising tips with a roomful of fund-seeking filmmakers.

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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.

Two-hit wonders

About 6,000 people made the most of a rare opportunity to stretch out on the cool, smooth outfield grass of AT&T Park to watch a preview screening of Touching Home, written, directed by and starring Logan and Noah Miller, as a promotion of their latest venture, the book about the making of the film, Either You’re In or You’re in the Way.

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Photo by Deborah Coleman/Pixar, courtesy SFFS.

"Up" and away

Now open everywhere, "Up" previewed at a San Francisco Film Society benefit Monday, May 11, at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, and featured a Q&A featured with Pixar General Manager Jim Morris (left) and "Up" Production Manager Mark Nielsen. (Photo by Deborah Coleman / Pixar)

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